OTTAWA, May 19 /CNW/ - Ottawa-based Axentra, the leader in digital home
media server software and services is pleased to announce that its
award winning HipServ software platform has reached leadership position
in the fast growing home cloud media market with over 400,000 home
users in 130 countries. HipServ is now on target to reach 1 million
home users by the end of 2011 and will be used in millions of household
electronic devices such as gateways, routers, media-hubs, NAS and
set-top-boxes in the next 24 months.

Axentra's HipServ is a trend setting solution that provides consumers
with a unique home cloud experience. Home users can finally manage,
safeguard, play and securely share all their personal digital media
from the secure confines of their home. The HipServ home cloud platform
allows users to easily play and share their photos, videos and music
wirelessly to any connected device such as iPads, iPhones, Android
tablets and smartphones, smart TVs, as well as DLNA enabled devices
such as TVs, media players and gaming consoles like the Xbox360 and the
PS3 at home and anywhere in the world via the Internet. HipServ offers
aggregation, synchronization, streaming and broadcasting of personal
digital media from home to popular social media sites such as Facebook.

Available in 16 languages, HipServ is now offered globally by top
networking and storage OEMs and Telco partners such as Netgear, Seagate
and Europe's Orange among others. Several new partners will be
announced over the next few months.

"We are excited to have reached a critical mass with HipServ" said
Marc-Antoine Benglia, CEO of Axentra Corporation. "This growing
installed base makes Axentra the leader in this very dynamic market
space and we look forward to bring additional innovative features and
services to reinforce our leadership position and increase our average
revenue per user in the short term."

About Axentra Corporation

The leading provider of embedded digital home media server software and
services solutions, Axentra is the developer of the award-winning
HipServ® platform. HipServ is targeted at OEMs and service providers
allowing them to offer value-add products and services that deliver a
unified digital lifestyle experience to consumers. Additional
information is available at www.axentra.com.